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[CITE: 16USC24]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER V--YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 24. Jurisdiction over park; fugitives from justice

    The Yellowstone National Park, as its boundaries now are defined, or 
as they may be hereafter defined or extended, shall be under the sole 
and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States. All the laws applicable 
to places under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United 
States, shall have force and effect in said park. Nothing in this Act 
shall be construed to forbid the service in the park of any civil or 
criminal process of any court having jurisdiction in the States of 
Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. All fugitives from justice taking refuge in 
said park shall be subject to the same laws as refugees from justice 
found in the State of Wyoming.

(May 7, 1894, ch. 72, Sec. 1, 28 Stat. 73.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is act May 7, 1894, which is 
classified to sections 24 to 30a of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

                          Codification

    Section 2 of act May 7, 1894, provided that the Yellowstone National 
Park should be part of the judicial district of Wyoming, and that the 
courts of the United States for the district should have jurisdiction of 
all offenses committed within the park. It was superseded by act Mar. 3, 
1911, ch. 231, Sec. 115, 36 Stat. 1130, constituting the State of 
Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park the judicial district of Wyoming, 
that section being in turn superseded by act June 5, 1924, ch. 260, 43 
Stat. 388. Provisions of that act are covered by section 131 of Title 
28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.


                     Wyoming: Jurisdiction Over Park

    The act admitting the State of Wyoming into the Union, act July 10, 
1890, ch. 664, 26 Stat. 222, contained a proviso annexed to the 
description of the boundaries of the State, in section 2 of the act, as 
follows: ``That nothing in this act contained shall repeal or affect any 
act of Congress relating to the Yellowstone National Park, or the 
reservation of the Park as now defined, or as may be hereafter defined 
or extended, or the power of the United States over it; and nothing 
contained in this act shall interfere with the right and ownership of 
the United States in said park and reservation as it now is or may 
hereafter be defined or extended by law; but exclusive legislation, in 
all cases whatsoever, shall be exercised by the United States, which 
shall have exclusive control and jurisdiction over the same; but nothing 
in this proviso contained shall be construed to prevent the service 
within said park of civil and criminal process lawfully issued by the 
authority of said State.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 21b, 30a of this title.
